Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study)
by Sadhu Gyanananddas | 2021 | 123,778 words
This page relates ‘Sustenance of the world’ of the study on the Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam in Light of Swaminarayan Vachanamrut (Vacanamrita). His 18th-century teachings belong to Vedanta philosophy and were compiled as the Vacanamrita, revolving around the five ontological entities of Jiva, Ishvara, Maya, Aksharabrahman, and Parabrahman. Roughly 200 years later, Bhadreshdas composed a commentary (Bhasya) correlating the principles of Vachanamrut.
3.8.3. Sustenance of the world
After creation, Parabrahman’s other great responsibility is for the sustenance[1] of the world. We examined the omni-agency of Parabrahman, relationship with the material and immaterial world.
The Bhāṣyakāra also states it while commenting on the sūtra:
Janmādyasya yataḥ-“janma ādiryasya tajjanmādi, utpattisthitipralayamiti... sthitiśca tayorantarālakālīnaprapañcavastha” (Brahmasūtra 1/1/2, p. 12-13)
“Brahman and Parabrahman are the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the universe. Sustain means the state that falls between the creation and final dissolution of the universe.”
The Taittiriya-upaniṣad also highlights the same fact.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Vacanāmṛta Gadhadā I/13, 2/39
[2]:
Taittiriya-upaniṣad 3/1/1, p.396